Brave new world

Read "Away From the Icebergs" and "Into a New World of Librarianship" (is that a ship for librarians?) and agree with most of what they say. Doubtless libraries must and are changing and this blogging exercise is a good example of our library's willingness to change. Thanks to the internet information is readily available on line almost instantly. It could be that libraries of the future should concentrate more on fiction and less on reference materials since reference questions can be so quickly googled, etc? Still there will always be a need for books and one should not overlook the social aspects of a library. While is the internet is efficient it is by it's very nature somewhat cold and certainly solitary. To me a library should also be a good place to hang out and I believe Linebaugh does a good job of making our library a good place for so doing. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.